Keynote SpeakersJeannine Carter is the former Head of Diversity Engagement at Facebook.
An internationally recognised leader, Jeannine, is also a very experienced consultant, facilitator and keynote speaker.
Tasked with leading Facebook’s Diversity Engagement, Jeannine, and her team’s mission was to build an inclusive community where everyone can thrive.
Her areas of expertise are diversity, inclusion, racial healing and justice, cultural and systemic change.
Jeannine provides clients with proven and transformative strategies to mitigate and end all forms of discriminatory hierarchies of human value and lead impactful DEIB related endeavours.
She is laser-focused on ensuring that underrepresented people are seen, heard, valued, and achieve their purpose.
As a keynote speaker, Jeannine’s presentations are a rare blend of impactful stories and lessons learned with actionable strategies for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) related efforts.
Across the span of her career, Jeannine Carter has helped Fortune 500 companies, professional services, law firms, profit, nonprofit organisations, and public sector organisations in various capacities to implement large organisational DEIB initiatives and accomplish their goals.
Carter began her career with IBM in San Francisco. After completing her MBA at Northwestern, she pursued her passion for diversity and multi-culturalism by co-founding The Kaleidoscope Group, a global diversity consulting firm based in Chicago.
As well as at Facebook, she has held internal senior leadership positions at companies, such as Deloitte & Touche, Denver Public Schools and Newmont Mining Corporation.
Jeannine Carter DEIB talking points include:
- Pioneering the most current and effective approaches to integrate DEI+culture
- What Exactly Are We/People Talking About When They Say/We Say DEIB?
- What Do All of These Terms Mean? Definitions of Diversity; Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and other terms that you hear of in this space.
- How Did We Get Here?
- Overview of D&I Industry Journey
- Overview of DEIB efforts
- Systemic Inequities
- When You/We Hear the Word ‘Journey’ What Do People/We Mean?
- DEIB Challenges & Opportunities
- History of Race & Its Role in DEIB
Jeannine is based in California, USA.
